NRI-Assembly: How can the national and regional IGFs contribute to the implementation of the UN Global Digital Compact? – WS 04 2025

13 May 2025 | 11:30 - 12:30 CEST | Room 10
Consolidated programme 2025

Proposals: #27, #29, #62, #67

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Session teaser

The Global Digital Compact agreed by the UN member states in September 2024 included objectives on bridging digital divides, expanding digital economy inclusion, fostering a safe, secure, and inclusive digital space that upholds human rights, interoperable data governance, and AI governance for humanity’s benefit. This workshop takes forward the EuroDIG messages agreed in Vilnius in June 2024 to support the aims of the Compact and considers how for the national and regional IGFs can contribute to the implementation of its commitments.

Session description

This session invites National and Regional Initiatives (NRIs) across and beyond Europe to explore practical mechanisms for translating the UN Global Digital Compact (GDC) commitments into national and regional action, share best practices, and identify opportunities for improved cooperation among NRIs. After a few short opening remarks, from invited experts, the floor will open for an interactive discussion that emphasises grassroots input and aims to generate actionable messages and recommendations for the broader Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and United Nations processes.

The Guiding Question:

- In what specific ways can the NRIs collaborate to support and assist the implementation of the Global Digital Compact on the national and global levels?

Format

Please try out new interactive formats. EuroDIG is about dialogue not about statements, presentations and speeches. Workshops should not be organised as a small plenary.

Further reading

• Global Digital Compact (GDC): https://www.un.org/global-digital-compact/en
• EuroDIG Messages from Vilnius (2024) on the GDC: https://www.eurodig.org/eurodig-2024/messages-from-vilnius/

Links to relevant websites, declarations, books, documents. Please note we cannot offer web space, so only links to external resources are possible. Example for an external link: Main page of EuroDIG

People

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Programme Committee member(s)

• Mark Carvell, Independent consultant on Internet governance policy
• Vlad Ivanets, Journalist and media researcher

The Programme Committee supports the programme planning process and works closely with the Secretariat. Members of the committee give advice on the topics, cluster the proposals and assist session organisers in their work. They also ensure that session principles are followed and overlook the complete programme to avoid repetition among sessions.

Focal Points

• Vlad Ivanets, Journalist and media researcher

Focal Points take over the responsibility and lead of the session organisation. They work in close cooperation with the respective member of the Programme Committee and the EuroDIG Secretariat and are kindly requested to follow EuroDIG’s session principles.

Organising Team (Org Team) List Org Team members here as they sign up.

• Aaron Promise Mbah
• Alena Muravska, Ripe NCC
• Tatiana Tropina, Internet Society
• Oksana Prykhodko, iNGO European Media Platform
• Titti Cassa, AGID | Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale
• Henry Wang, SmartMesh
• Denitza Toptchiyska
• Isti Marta Sukma, University of Warsaw

The Org Team is shaping the session. Org Teams are open, and every interested individual can become a member by subscribing to the mailing list.

Key Participants

Key Participants (also speakers) are experts willing to provide their knowledge during a session. Key Participants should contribute to the session planning process and keep statements short and punchy during the session. They will be selected and assigned by the Org Team, ensuring a stakeholder balanced dialogue also considering gender and geographical balance. Please provide short CV’s of the Key Participants at the Wiki or link to another source.

• Isabel De Sola — Head of Coordination Unit, UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies
• Anja Gengo — NRI Focal Point, UN Secretariat for the IGF
• Chengetai Masango, United Nations Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Programme and Technology Manager

Moderator

• Mark Carvell, Independent consultant on Internet governance policy
• Vlad Ivanets, Journalist and media researcher

The moderator is the facilitator of the session at the event they must attend on-site. Moderators are responsible for including the audience and encouraging a lively interaction among all session attendants. Please make sure the moderator takes a neutral role and can balance between all speakers. Please provide short CV of the moderator of your session at the Wiki or link to another source.

Remote Moderator

Trained remote moderators will be assigned by the EuroDIG secretariat to each session.

Reporter

The members of the Programme Committee report on the session and formulate messages that are agreed with the audience by consensus.

Through a cooperation with the Geneva Internet Platform AI generated session reports and stats will be available after EuroDIG.

Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

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• dates for virtual meetings or coordination calls
• short summary of calls or email exchange

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Agenda of the First Org Team meeting (held on 8 April 2025):

1. Introductions of Programme Committee and Org Team members
2. Outlining the session’s format, content and objectives
3. Keynote speaker agreement/suggestions
4. Potential guiding questions agreement/suggestions
5. Next steps for the Org Team

The summary and preparatory process are available via this public link

Messages

• are summarised on a slide and presented to the audience at the end of each session
• relate to the session and to European Internet governance policy
• are forward looking and propose goals and activities that can be initiated after EuroDIG (recommendations)
• are in (rough) consensus with the audience

Video record

Will be provided here after the event.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This is not an official record of the session. The DiploAI system automatically generates these resources from the audiovisual recording. Resources are presented in their original format, as provided by the AI (e.g. including any spelling mistakes). The accuracy of these resources cannot be guaranteed.

The Geneva Internet Platform will provide transcript, session report and additional details shortly after the session.